Vadim Rutkovsky

Tech Industry & Culture Link to heading Now That’s What I Call Technical Debt!

Tech Industry & Culture Link to heading These 6 countries secretly have the same name Country names can look unrelated in English while sharing the same root.

Tech Industry & Culture Link to heading Become worthless (to tech companies) • Cory Dransfeldt Tech companies and their executives have, broadly, moved to align themselves with investors and adopted a posture of, often, disdain or outright hostility towar…

Tech Industry & Culture Link to heading There’s no such thing as Just a Tool Heidegger thinks about tools like so: a tool is something (a thing that has being in the Heideggerian sense, not necessarily an object) that represents an extension of human capa…

Tech Industry & Culture Link to heading They Tried to Make Charlie Kirk a Saint.

Tech Industry & Culture Link to heading A/I Shuts Down Stay Human · Keep the Internet free Autistici/Inventati shuts down after 25 years, unable to protect users once designated a global terrorist organization.

Tech Industry & Culture Link to heading Why Old Software Sometimes Feels Better Old software often feels better because it was smaller, more direct, and less interested in managing the user.

Artificial Intelligence & Society Link to heading 23rd August 2026 Software projects can be categorized into Art, Infrastructure, and Activism, and projects can shift between these groups.

Tech Industry & Culture Link to heading Dogshit In the late 80s, a Microsoft manager coined “eat their own dogfood” to push internal use of LAN Manager.

Artificial Intelligence & Society Link to heading The Future is for Everyone Zuckerberg’s positive AI future means personal agents for everyone, broad access, open source, and human control.

Published in Vol. 4 No. 1 (2026) Automata https://khorein.ifdt.bg.ac.rs/index.php/ch/article/view/123 # A century from now it will surely be ludicrous to aspire to assembly-line work or a scriptwriter’s career, which are likely to be obsolete targets of d…

The Consumer Society Jean Baudrillard View on Open Library # A new art of living, a new way of living, say the adverts – a ‘switched-on’ daily experience.

Simulacra and simulation Jean Baudrillard View on Open Library # The West is seized with panic at the thought of not being able to save what the symbolic order had been able to conserve for forty centuries, but out of sight and far from the light of day T…

Games & Media Link to heading Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man Nolan’s The Odyssey has visual scale to spare and human depth missing.

Tech Industry & Culture Link to heading If A Company Does Three Layoffs In Seven Months, Maybe It’s Bad At Being A Company Disney hit Pixar, National Geographic, and ESPN with another round of cuts, its third in seven months.

Tech Industry & Culture Link to heading I Am Not Sorry Lindsey Graham is Dead Years of organized anti-trans hate turn Christian radical love into something darker.

Tech Industry & Culture Link to heading Premium: The Hater’s Guide To SoftBank SoftBank looks less like a visionary AI investor and more like a leveraged holding company betting its balance sheet on OpenAI liquidity.

Tech Industry & Culture Link to heading US Supreme Court just blew up EU-US Data Transfers The US Supreme Court decided that the US Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) may not be independent anymore – with major implications for EU-US Data Transfers.

Tech Industry & Culture Link to heading New York Times Uses Ubisoft Co-Founder’s Obituary To Launder ‘DEI’ Complaints About An Assassin’s Creed Game NYT dropped a paragraph about Assassin’s Creed Shadows DEI complaints and Elon Musk’s racist comments into…

Tech Industry & Culture Link to heading Something is Very Wrong in San Francisco San Francisco feels poisoned by AI boom money, cynical ads, and software-industry exhaustion.

Tech Industry & Culture Link to heading What Is a Dickover?

Tech Industry & Culture Link to heading More Artists Could Stand To Be Normal About Their Black Music Influences Cultural appreciation works when artists understand and acknowledge Black music as more than aesthetic garnish.

Tech Industry & Culture Link to heading I Hope GTA 6’s Soundtrack Is As Timeless As San Andreas Grand Theft Auto 6 faces high expectations for its soundtrack, following the timeless and culturally impactful music of San Andreas.

Read This Now Link to heading The Kids Are All Right College graduates are booing pro-AI speakers at commencement ceremonies.

Read This Now Link to heading Kubernetes 1.36 quietly buried one of the worst RBAC patterns in production The nodes/proxy RBAC pattern — commonly granted to monitoring tools — allowed privilege escalation and remote code execution via a plain GET request,…

Read This Now Link to heading Being a Luddite Is Cool and All, but Have You Seen the Hilarious Tapestries These New Looms Are Making?

Tech Industry & Culture Link to heading The Left Doesn’t Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited Leftist AI skepticism isn’t technophobia — it’s asking who actually benefits.

Tech Industry & Culture Link to heading A brief history of techno-negativity From the techne pessimists of Ancient Greece to the computer firebombers of the Information Age, here’s a look at the long—and fruitful—legacy of refusing the machine.

Tech Industry & Culture Link to heading Premium: The Hater’s Guide to OpenAI A critical examination of OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman alleges a pattern of unsustainable financial practices, deep operating losses, and inflated revenue figures.

Tech Industry & Culture Link to heading OpenAI CFO Doesn’t Believe Company Ready For IPO OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar has, per The Information, said that OpenAI is not ready to go public in 2026, in part because of the “risks from its spending commitments” and…

Tech Industry & Culture Link to heading The Top 10 Biggest Conspiracies in Open Source A satirical tour through ten open source conspiracy theories: Dependabot as a surveillance tool, node_modules as a distributed ledger, Kubernetes as a jobs program, and…

Tech Industry & Culture Link to heading Marc Andreessen is a philosophical zombie Andreessen caused a minor kerfuffle by saying on a podcast that he doesn’t introspect at all, and that in fact, people shouldn’t.

Artificial Intelligence & Society Link to heading Nobody Likes Nvidia’s Weird New AI Porn Faces Nvidia’s new AI-powered DLSS 5 technology is facing widespread criticism for distorting character faces in games like Resident Evil Requiem.

Artificial Intelligence & Society SCOTUS Declines to Hear LLM-Backed AI Case Regarding Copyright The U.S.

Science Link to heading Even the Mars Rover Uses Zip Ties NASA’s Perseverance rover utilizes high-performance Tefzel ETFE zip ties to secure internal cabling, proving that simple solutions work even on Mars.

Science Link to heading How Did Hendrix Turn His Guitar Into a Wave Synthesizer?

Science Link to heading Why you’re probably stroking your cat completely wrong (and how to do it right) Why you’re stroking your cat completely wrong (and how to do it right), according to feline behavioural experts.

Artificial Intelligence & Society Link to heading ‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastr…

Artificial Intelligence & Society Link to heading The job losses are real — but the AI excuse is fake Widespread AI-related job losses are largely a corporate excuse to mask economic issues and desire for layoffs.

Artificial Intelligence & Society Link to heading AI predictions for 2026 A critical examination of the hype surrounding AI and LLMs, specifically targeting “vibe coding” and interface designs that promote addictive behavior.

Artificial Intelligence & Society Link to heading Stop using natural language interfaces - Tidepool Heavy Industries Natural language is a wonderful interface, but just because we suddenly can doesn’t mean we always should.

Artificial Intelligence & Society Link to heading Artificial Innovation | 4u.lol A critical look at the finalists of the United Nations AI for Good Innovation Tags: AI, Innovation, Critique, Society ‘Will The AI Bubble Finally Burst’ And Other 2026 Predic…

First article list in 2026: Is tree-sitter good enough?

Here are the articles I’ve read this week: Self-Host Weekly #150: Watchtower No More Popular open source licenses, Santa tracking, and saying goodbye to an old friend Tags: SelfHost, Software, Docker, Update, OpenSource My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launch…

A few interesting articles I’ve read this week: Open Source religion … Is open source a synthetic religion ?

Here are the articles I’ve read this week: How I Turned Gemini CLI into a Multi-Agent System with Just Prompts A deep dive into creating a multi-agent orchestration system in the Gemini CLI using only native features.

Another week, another list of articles: Pebble, Rebble, and a Path Forward Tags: Pebble, Rebble, Conflict, Appstore, Openness I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI.

Some interesting articles I’ve read this week: I Work For an Evil Company, but Outside Work, I’m Actually a Really Good Person I love my job.

Here are the articles I’ve read this week: AI’s 70% Problem - Zed Blog Tags: AI, Code, Trust, Developer, Productivity you don’t need anubis don’t use anubis just to block llm scrapers Tags: Bot, Protection, Anubis, Cloudflare, Scraper Using Assisted-by co…

Here are the articles I’ve read this week: The AI Bubble’s Impossible Promises Readers: I’ve done a very generous “free” portion of this newsletter, but I do recommend paying for premium to get the in-depth analysis underpinning the intro.